When comparing LastPass vs Nova Launcher Prime, the Slant community recommends Nova Launcher Prime for most people. In the question“What are the most useful Android phone apps?”Nova Launcher Prime is ranked 1st while LastPass is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Nova Launcher Prime is:

Nova Launcher provides an experience that's similar to stock Android, but adds multiple customization options. Customization ranges in ways that interactions and the user interface can be changed both aesthetically and functionally.

Pros

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Automatic cloud backup and cross-device sync

LastPass keeps an encrypted copy of all passwords locally as well as an encrypted copy on their servers. That way, passwords can be accessed locally while offline, or through their server while online from any machine.

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All encryption and decryption is done locally

All the encryption and decryption is done by the client (JS/App) so even LastPass doesn't have access to passwords.

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Seamless autofill and password generator via plugins for all popular browsers

All common browsers, including Opera, have plugins that allow automatically filling in forms and generating passwords. All form fill information syncs across all platforms, devices and browsers. Password generator can be adjusted to use or exclude certain characters and patterns.

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Yubikey Support

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Password One-Click Change

LastPass is able to change your password automagically.

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Offers multiple export options

LastPass can dump the whole database as a .csv file or an encrypted file that can then be decrypted using LastPass Pocket as well as separately export Wi-Fi passwords and autofill information. Additional export options are available on a per-browser basis.

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Can create one-time passwords for accessing the Vault

LastPass allows creating passwords for accessing the LastPass Vault that can only be used once. Great for accessing the Vault in public or untrusted places.

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Vetted by Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is a well established security researcher best know for his work with Apple and Atari systems as well as founding Gibson Research Corporation. He was given access to LastPass' source code and confirmed that it's safe to trust its security.

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Allows downloading an encrypted database backup that can only be decrypted with LastPass Pocket

LastPass Pocket is a standalone personal database decrypter. It's a portable executable, meaning it does not need to be installed, that is used to decrypt a local encrypted copy of the password database.

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Military grade encryption

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Works even with browsers that don't support plugins

Via a clever use of bookmarklets, LastPass works on browsers that don't inherently support bookmarklets, like Opera or Safari on iOS.

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Credit monitoring in US

LastPass can be set to notify if a user's credit report suddenly changes.

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Works with Windows applications with native app

Can record the steps and use it to login to native Windows apps.

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Integrates well with XMarks

XMarks and LastPass are developed by a developer who offers discounts on annual subs for both apps.

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Has a more customizable stock Android experience

Nova Launcher provides an experience that's similar to stock Android, but adds multiple customization options. Customization ranges in ways that interactions and the user interface can be changed both aesthetically and functionally.

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Fast

Speed of Nova Launcher is one of the app's key points. Even with a lot of widgets Nova Launcher performs speedy.

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Custom grid size

From the Nova Settings menu, users can create a custom grid size for their desktop and app drawer, up to a maximum of 12 columns and rows. Discriminating users can also adjust the size of the margins on the top, bottom, left and right. This allows for users to set how many widgets and apps can fit on these screens.

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Gesture support

Use gestures (swipe up, double tap, etc.) to easily launch apps.

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Stable

Solid performance for getting work (and play) done, no crashes, no slow downs.

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Drawer style options

Options include horizontal pages, vertical scrolling or list. The user is also able to adjust the background transparency. This way the users drawer can look unique while also offering more or less apps on the page depending on their preference.

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Custom icon packs

Not all custom launchers allow custom icon packs. Nova supports most custom icon packs that are in the Play Store.

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Infinite home screen scroll

Turning on infinite scrolling allows the user to move seamlessly among all of their home screens, rather than having to scroll backward when the last page is reached. This proves particularly useful if the user has a large number of homescreens. Infinite scrolling can also be enabled in the app drawer.

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Can automatically sort inside of folders alphabetically

The user can sort their folders in the drawer and home-screen alphabetically.

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Unread counts

Nova Launcher Prime offers unread counts for all supported apps, a feature not available on all launchers. Although it requires the free installation of TeslaUnread.

What TeslaUnread does is add unread count numbers to certain application icons in ones application drawer and home screen, giving a quick overview of how many unread notifications they have in that supported application.

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Tablet support

The app drawer and widgets take full advantage of a tablets extra screen real estate.

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Outstanding widget support

With the custom grids, most widgets can be sized to specifications which give added control over Android home screens.

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Folder contents synced between drawer and homescreen

Create a folder in the drawer.

Drag the folder from the drawer to a home screen.

Add more items to the drawer folder.

The item gets added automatically to the home screen folder (because it is the same folder).

In addition, the user can set a custom icon for the folder (or for each shortcut).

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Tapping & swiping a shortcut can have different results

Nova has the ability to add an assortment of action shortcuts to the home-screen which can be performed when swiping on particular areas or icons (as opposed to when tapping).

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Allows hiding the status bar

Within Nova's setting the user can set the notification bar to stay hidden, allowing for more screen real estate.

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Folders in the app drawer

Nova Launcher has the ability to add folders into the app drawer making for easy sorting of many apps.

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Desktop lock

It has an option to lock the icons and widgets in place as well as locks out the ability to delete apps, preventing accidental rearranging or deletions.

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Google widget customizations

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Sesame Shortcuts integration

Cons

Con

Not free/libre

This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified, freely distributed, or trusted to be secure.

Con

Forced cloud backup

The is no way to opt-out of saving all of passwords on LastPass servers.

Con

When generating passwords, LastPass tends to put the wrong info in forms

For forms with both an email address and username, LastPass tends to mix up and overwrite information.

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Forgets to ask "add new site?" on some websites

So you are forced to add a new site manually, which takes too long (relatively speaking).

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Somewhat poor customer service

LastPass maintains a support forum which they mostly ignore, labeling it "mostly peer-to-peer support" leaving only their e-mail ticket system to turn to.

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History of bad support for the company behind LastPass

You never know how much you will pay for it because LogMeIn did the same with Hamachi product. Support will be bad.

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Has been hacked before

And becomes extra bad as you are forced to have everything at one central cloud place.

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Doesn't always log out when idle

This issue is especially common with the mobile app.

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Recently doubled annual subscription rates

This applies even if you're a re-subscribing customer.

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Mobile apps are not intuitive

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Overwhelming at first

Nova Launcher offers such a huge amount of customization that at first it is quite a bit overwhelming. There are settings everywhere and other launchers offer more of a step-by-step setup process. Nova Launcher could take you hours to set up how you like it. On the other hand the pure amount of settings allows you to set it up almost exactly how you like it.

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Lacks automatic backup

There is no way to automatically back up settings or content. Reinstalling the launcher on the same device will lose all settings and content.

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Less icon packs

This launcher has less icon packs. The system icons it has, are not HD quality.

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Memory utilisation is a bit high

With all of the features and options Nova Launcher offers there is an understandable loss of RAM, though it could always be optimized better.